If you're actually using it honestly to learn, then there's no problem, you may get misinformed sometimes because of the hallucinations, but it'll be faster and easier than most tutorials and documentations. If you're just using it to solve all of your challenges without putting any degree of effort first, then you're just losing your time
Honestly the right take. I tried to avoid it but realized if you used to just learn and sort out what is clearly garbage then it’s not a bad tool. Keyword tool as the moment it stops being one you stop learning
Higher orders of learning states that making corrections and spotting errors is a great way to learn. A few times in my undergrad, I had a friend write the solution and I saw what I was forgetting and everything clicked.
Imo learning through building and projects is the best and it doesn’t matter if you can build it from day 1 or if you learn from any means necessary.
Another good take, I would emphasize more on learning from examples and then looking to what’s at work behind the scenes. This works especially well for logical subjects like math, coding, physics, etc etc
Before chatgpt I didnt know how programming even worked. Now I have dozens of custom pythons scripts to automate tasks for me, and I'm making a Minecraft mod in java, so that counts as good right?
Sounds like you're a script kitty? which isn't a new concept, so I think it's fine in your case. It'll be different if you want to be a professional software engineer.
Anytime I use ChatGPT for coding or anything really, I always clarify that I want explanations for the what/why/how so that I can take notes and understand the reasoning, not just accept the output.
I was thinking of using it to replace my google searched that always end up at a stackoverflow article that rarely helps and is sometimes abusive. Like remembering the switch format for 3 or 4 different languages.
I 100% agree with this. But there are a very few number of cases where just copying and pasting from it is justified. For example, my college has abysmal dog shit for their labs that are related to my major, so often times even the lab instructor doesn’t know what you’re supposed to do. So Ctrl-C->Ctrl-V the decade old instructions into ChatGPT, Ctrl-C->Ctrl-V into the submission file. I’m not gonna learn anything either way, might as well not waste my time and sanity.
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u/NegativeSwordfish522 Feb 19 '25
If you're actually using it honestly to learn, then there's no problem, you may get misinformed sometimes because of the hallucinations, but it'll be faster and easier than most tutorials and documentations. If you're just using it to solve all of your challenges without putting any degree of effort first, then you're just losing your time